(in the Pacific Northwest) an area of forest destroyed by fire.
Canadian. land covered with rocks or scrub growth.
An Americanism dating back to 1785–95; from French: literally, “burnt,” past participle of brûler; see broil 1
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It was above the Fire-scald, a brulé or burnt-over space on the steep southern side of the ridge between Briar Knob and Laurel Top, overlooking the grisly slope of Killpeter.
From Our Southern Highlanders by Kephart, Horace
Brulé Lakota member Red Cormorant Woman was one of hundreds of Native American women who married French fur traders.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2022
So Brulé set out to figure out what it takes for women to assert the rights they have on paper.
From New York Times ● Jun. 8, 2022
Rachel Brulé, a political scientist at Boston University, studies women’s rights and political participation in India.
From New York Times ● Jun. 8, 2022
The highway from Brulé River to the St. Croix became known as Duluth's Portage.
From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Bolton, Herbert Eugene
You’ll remember the lower Brulé Sioux Reservation, below us and west of the river.
From The Young Alaskans on the Missouri by Hough, Emerson
He trains his dogs in Brule, Wisconsin, in the fall and winter.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 14, 2023
Chamberlain and parts of South Dakota were under a winter storm warning Saturday and Brule County emergency manager Katheryn Benton said planes were unable to land at Chamberlain at the time of the crash.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 1, 2019
Brule County emergency manager Katheryn Benton told the Sioux Falls Argus Leader that planes were unable to land at Chamberlain at the time of the crash.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 1, 2019
The passengers, part of a hunting party, ranged in age from 7 to 81, and the three survivors are males ages 17, 27 and 28, Brule County Emergency Manager Katheryn Benton said.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 30, 2019
But now she was here, perhaps stuck here indefinitely—unless she did something about it—and Brule was on Manon Planet.
From Legacy by Schmitz, James H.
There is a legend which says that at one time the bands of the Ogallallas and Brulés lived upon this river, immediately opposite the precipice.
From The Great Salt Lake Trail by Inman, Henry
Joe Two-Hawk had come as a sort of emissary from the Brulés.
From Land of the Burnt Thigh by Voorhies, Stephen J.
As Bob Scott had predicted, the Brulés had burned the ranch and craftily scattered the moment they reached the sand-hills.
From The Mountain Divide by Both, Armand
They would lay the matter before the council fire of Sintogaliska,—he who had ruled the Brulés since first the white tents of the soldiers gleamed along the Platte—Sintogaliska who never lied.
From Under Fire by Cox, C. B.
When the Brulés attacked the Ponkas, in 1872, they stood on the bluff and threw up dust.
To hunt the buffalo freely, even on foreign soil, seemed to the bois brulés to be their natural right.
From Old Fort Snelling 1819-1858 by Hansen, Marcus L.
There are no better horsemen in the world than the Red River "brulés;" and so long as the horse keeps on his legs, the rider sticks to him.
From Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory Volume II. by M'lean, John
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